Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 3 other numbers.
September 29, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 23 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Mega Ball field of 1 through 24, from April 8, 2025 through November 10, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 167 drawings it appeared 7 times. That is within 5 percent of the even-split count of 7.0. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 24 is 7.0. Mega Ball 23 ranks 10th, tied with 3 other numbers.
The last appearance was September 29, 2026, which is 12 drawings ago. That gap ranks 16th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 49 drawings, after September 2, 2025 and before it returned on February 24, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was August 7, 2026, 15 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 19.7 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
This set does not contain a complete calendar year, so a busiest-year label would overread a partial season. The raw yearly counts are 2 appearances in 2025 and 5 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 5 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 1 time. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was September 29, 2026: white balls 10, 15, 16, 27, 64, and Mega Ball 23.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 23 were white ball 39 (3 times), white ball 17 (2 times), and white ball 43 (2 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 22 (7 appearances) and Mega Ball 24 (11 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,556 drawings and records 49 appearances of Mega Ball 23. The earliest of them is January 21, 2003. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 12 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Ball has a 1-in-24 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- September 29, 2026: white balls 10, 15, 16, 27, 64, and Mega Ball 23
- August 7, 2026: white balls 17, 20, 32, 54, 57, and Mega Ball 23
- July 10, 2026: white balls 2, 39, 44, 46, 56, and Mega Ball 23
- February 27, 2026: white balls 11, 18, 39, 43, 67, and Mega Ball 23
- February 24, 2026: white balls 12, 39, 43, 49, 55, and Mega Ball 23
- September 2, 2025: white balls 7, 17, 35, 40, 64, and Mega Ball 23
- August 12, 2025: white balls 1, 8, 31, 56, 67, and Mega Ball 23
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 22
- Mega Ball 24
- Mega Millions white ball 39
- Mega Millions white ball 17